The food was great, sure. The wines even better. With Herman the German as host and Ken Kessler choosing the wines this was a nobrainer. The outstanding product was the D`Agostino Momentum. It looks much better in real then on pictures and is quite small but heavy ( 42kG a piece ). It is only 300W on 8 Ohm but pumps out more then 2000W into 1 Ohm without much feedback and a rather medium output impedance of 0.15 Ohm.
Sonus Faber had the best looking room. I felt like in a top class italian living room. The sound was very good too, especially on Vinyl with Audio Research electronics and a Bauer DPS with MOFI cart. The only problem was occasional boominess on CD that was curiously not a problem with Vinyl. Despite some setup compromises i liked the speakers best in the Onyx room. I forgot the name of that speakers but they have being designed by the omni present Joseph Szall. A 16cm NanoTech woofer and a Mundorf AMT gave a very dimensional and open sound i did not hear in the other presentations.